This morning’s front-pages worked along a theme “Brown’s shock that his family medical records were hacked”. Kids should not be fair game for the pack, but is there any evidence that this is a hack rather than a traditional, if distasteful, leak? It’s noticeable that since this crisis broke, News International have been ominously silent on the specifics of the allegations put to them, until this one that they have denied.

Here’s what Gordon said:

“You’re in public life. And this story appears. You don’t know how it’s appeared. I’ve not questioned how it’s appeared. I’ve not made any allegations about how it’s appeared. I’ve not made any claims about [how it appeared]. But the fact is it did appear. And it did appear in the Sun newspaper.”

No allegation of illegality, but too late, the story is out. The timing of yesterday’s intervention couldn’t have worked better to keep the story alive here , and across the Atlantic. And it’s not just Guido that smells a the whiff of revenge…